Szilasi Ágota, H.: Víz - fény-szín-tér. Stílusvariációk egy technikára. Egri Országos Akvarell Biennálé 1968-2004 a Dobó István Vármúzeum kortárs akvarell gyűjteménye (Eger, 2006)
physical and spiritual distortions she has herself observed in an excessively mechanised, postmodern consumer society. Main prize winner at the 2004 Eger WatercolourBiennial József DARÁZS (1955) Born in Badacsonytomaj and presently living in Szeged, he started painting in 1974. He is a member of the Young Artists' Studio, the National Society of Hungarian Artists, the Association of Fine and Applied Artists and the Hungarian Painters' Society. He considers Péter Földi to have been his teacher. The spiritual, mental and formal bases for his artistic world come from the esoteric literature of Gábor Pap, particularly in relation to ancient Hungarian mythology and folk art. When making his first investigations into the pictorial world of traditional cultures he adopted geometric, decorative motifs pregnant with symbolic meaning, which then evolved into an open, dynamic, indeed surrealistic mode of composition. El KAZOVSZKIJ (1950) Although he was born in Leningrad he completed his artistic studies in Budapest. His teachers at the Hungarian College of Art were György Kádár and Ignác Kokas. He has been awarded both the Munkácsy and Kossuth prizes. Apart from being a successful painter he is a maker of installations, a performance artist and stage designer. His artistic career started in the 1970s, and since then his chosen motifs and themes have remained constant. His paintings are mythological in character, providing metaphors for the birth and extinction of myths. From his favoured motifs he builds up a landscape based on Greek and archaic symbols. Although it is a place where the worlds of the universal and the everyday influence and complement one another, the initial impulse, irrespective of the technique being used, comes from the real world. The expression of the motifs, the daring verticals, the contrast of the clear and heightened colours and dark contouring help to give the paintings their dynamism. Prize winner atthe 1990 Eger Watercolour Biennial Alajos ESZIK (1953) Graduated from the Hungarian College of Art in graphics in 1983, where his teachers were Károly Raszler and Tibor Rozanits. Since then he has been teaching life classes and traditional printing techniques at the college where he studied, as well as ethics, something he feels is equally important. He has exhibited since 1977, and is a regular participant at the Makó Art Colony. He is both an illustrator and a draughtsman of some virtuosity. Heisa figurative artist, and the human figure always occupies a central position in his work. In his opinion drawingthe human figure is an exercise in self-discovery, in which the understanding and placing of the body's language onto the paper's surface is a rewarding task. He is primarily interested in figurai movement, open, arching gestures, occasionally expressing the timelessness of ecstatic experience. The appearance of grotesque, incongruous situations, exaggerated gestures and naked figures express a world, in this case the twisted tenets of an urban civilisation, which has earned the scorn of this particular critical witness. 113
